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TYPE 047CD
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The is the second full-length release by Sweden's Andreas Tilliander as Mokira for the Type label. It's hard to believe that five years have passed since the release of Album, Tilliander's first outing on the Type label. Album marked the final stage in Andreas' development as a "laptop" artist, and since then he has collected synthesizer upon synthesizer and enough tape to make the boys in Berlin jealous. Ditching the zeroes and ones, Andreas set about piecing together a follow-up to Album and constructing it entirely in the analog realm; the warming hiss of tape, the decomposing buzz of a monosynth, and the nostalgic twitch of the Roland TB303. There might be a love of all things "kosmiche" once more, but it would be facile to label Persona as such. Sure, Andreas has heard his fair share of Cluster and Harmonia records, but his sound is just as rooted in psychedelic rock and even Basic Channel-era dub techno as Germanic ambience. Just listen to the thick, pulsating ode to Spacemen 3, "Oscillations And Tremolo," and you quickly realize that you are not merely listening to another synthesizer Album. Half-heard rhythms and familiar TB303 bass pulses drag us in and out of a hinted-at Basic Channel-axis production on "Valla Torg Kraut" while a fairground jangle drives us through "Ode To The Ode To The Street Hassle." Something in there is blissful, almost beautiful, but it is hidden below thick layers of tape hiss and crumbling circuit boards. Persona is a mature, confident and engaging experience -- the product of a veteran electronic musician producing music that comes naturally to him. As the Ingmar Bergman film of the same name suggests, it might be Andreas Tilliander's most revealing record to date. A stunning collection of modern electronic music.
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